Lin Mo waited by the Ma Mansion until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening, seeing that it was almost dark and he hadn't eaten yet, Lin Mo had no choice but to leave and come back tomorrow. Just as Lin Mo hadn't walked a few steps outside, he suddenly heard a rustling sound, and a gorgeous carriage came into view.

The carriage stopped in front of the gate of the horse house, and the porter of the horse house of the horse house also hurriedly greeted him from the house, and the coachman jumped out of the car and shouted to the car: "Second Miss, it's here, you can come down." ”

As she spoke, she took out a car stool and put it next to the car, and a handsome little girl took the lead in pulling the curtain and getting out of the car through the car stool.

Lin Mo saw that it was Liu Xin'er, Lin Mo hurriedly stepped forward and shouted:

"Xin'er."

Liu Xin'er saw that it was Lin Mo, a little surprised and surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Lin Mo and said:

"Brother Mo, why are you? When did you come? Liu Xin'er pulled Lin Mo and kept talking.

Xin'er, you have a lover and forgot Miss! A crisp voice came from inside the carriage.

Liu Xin'er reacted at this time, and hurriedly ran to the carriage, blushing and puffing, and said coquettishly:

"Miss, don't talk nonsense, Brother Mo is not my lover."

The more Xin'er spoke, the smaller her voice became, the redder her face became, and at this time a woman also got out of the car, Liu Xin'er hurriedly stepped forward to help, this woman had pink lips, bright eyes and bright teeth, and was wearing a azure long dress, Lin Mo was almost stupid.

However, Lin Mo quickly reacted and stepped forward and said:

"In Xia Lin Mo, I have seen the second miss."

"You're Lin Mo? I've often heard Xin'er mention you, and today I finally met the real person. You're here to relieve Xin'er's lovesickness. ”

As he spoke, he looked at Liu Xin'er, with a smile on his face, and looked at Liu Xin'er jokingly. Liu Xin'er's face was flushed, and she lowered her head and didn't dare to speak.

Lin Mo looked at Liu Xin'er and didn't know how to speak, with a little bitterness on his face, if he told Liu Xin'er now, would it be too cruel to her.

Just as Lin Mo was entangled, Miss Ma Er seemed to feel that Lin Mo had something to say.

So he said: "Brother Lin finally came here, there should be a lot of things to say to Xin'er, hurry up and enter the house together, you can talk about it." ”

Saying that, he led Lin Mo and the others into the mansion together, and Lin Mo had no choice but to follow behind without saying a word.

After a few people entered the house, the next person informed that the second lady had returned to the house, and as soon as Mr. Ma and Mrs. Ma heard it, they asked Miss Ma to go to the hall.

Miss Ma asked Xin'er to accompany Lin Mo to walk around the house.

Liu Xin'er took Lin Mo to the house for a while, and then took Lin Mo to her room, asked Lin Mo to sit down, and went to make a pot of hot tea.

Lin Mo looked at Liu Xin'er's busy figure and made up his mind, and when Liu Xin'er came back, Lin Mo chatted with her, Liu Xin'er asked Lin Mo why he came back to see him, Lin Mo said that he had something to do with Nan, so he stopped by to see her.

Lin Mo talked about his situation, and Liu Xin'er told Lin Mo about the interesting things she had seen with Miss.

I don't know how long later, a cough outside the house broke the conversation between the two, and Lin Mo opened the door to see that it was Miss Ma. Miss Ma opened her mouth and said:

"It's late at night, I've already asked someone to prepare a room for Brother Lin, Brother Lin rest early, and I'll have a good chat with Xin'er during the day tomorrow, Xin'er, you should rest early."

Liu Xin'er wanted to take Lin Mo to the guest room, but the second lady refused, saying that she was on the way, so she could take Lin Mo over and let Xin'er rest quickly.

After Lin Mo followed the second lady to death, his heart was very complicated, and his mind was already in a mess.

Suddenly the second miss stopped, Lin Mo didn't notice and bumped into the second miss all of a sudden, Lin Mo hurriedly stepped forward to help the second miss, and said sorry in her mouth, the second miss stood up with a little blush, dusted off her body and said:

"Little Brother Lin, I see that you are very preoccupied, you came to see Xin'er this time not just to stop by to see her."

Looking at the second miss's suspicious eyes, Lin Mo knew that he couldn't hide it from her, so he said, "There is a reluctant request below, please second miss must agree." ”

"What?" Lin Mo said: "Please Second Miss first promise to keep this secret for me, don't let Xin'er know, so that I can say." "Sure enough, it has something to do with Xin'er, I agreed, you can say it."

"Xin'er's mother was killed, and her father is now regarded as a murderer and is now locked up in the county jail." Lin Mo said in a low voice.

"What? How is this possible?"

The second lady exclaimed, but soon found that she had lost her temper, so she quickly calmed down and asked urgently what was going on, Lin Mo told the second miss what had happened.

"So no one saw Xin'er's father kill his wife." The second miss asked, "The second miss is really witty, and she hit the nail on the head all of a sudden, no one saw Xin'er's father kill people." ”

Lin Mo continued, "But the murder weapon has been found, even if no one saw Xin'er's father kill his wife with a knife, but many people saw that he had a quarrel with Xin'er Niang, and only Liu Butcher was present after Xin'er Niang's death, plus the murder weapon was the Liu family's pig-killing knife." Combined, these articles can be convicted of homicide even if they do not confess. ”

After listening to Lin Mo's words, the second lady fell into deep thought, and then asked Lin Mo: "What do you need me to help you do?" ”

Lin Mo hurriedly hugged his fist to the second lady: "I will try my best to find out the truth of the matter, and return the innocent of the butcher Liu, before that, please don't tell Xin'er about this, don't let Xin'er leave the house, and you must not let her know about it." ”

The second miss nodded, Lin Mo thanked the second miss again, and then said that he would leave tomorrow morning to investigate the matter, and asked the second miss to take care of Liu Xin'er. After speaking, Lin Mo went to the guest room to rest.

The next morning, Lin Mo left without saying goodbye to Liu Xin'er and the second miss.

Liu Xin'er came to Lin Mo but found that he had already left, and she was very depressed, and the second lady comforted her and said that Lin Mo really had something to do, and a man who puts his career first is a responsible person, praising Liu Xin'er for not choosing the wrong person, Liu Xin'er was a little shy when she heard it, but she also forgave Lin Mo.

The second lady looked at Liu Xin'er, feeling a little distressed, but she couldn't show it, she could only hope that Lin Mo could find out the murderer and return Xin'er's father to an innocence.

Lin Mo came to the county office and stood at the door anxiously waiting for the trial to begin, thinking about how to win the opportunity to help Liu Butcher clear his grievances. As soon as the time arrived, the county yamen was opened, and the third-class officials began to act, Lin Mo knew that the interrogation was about to begin, and hurriedly entered the hall to hear the trial.

After a while, a bloated official sat on a chair in the hall, and this person should be Song Yi, the county magistrate.

As soon as the county order was issued, a group of officials brought Liu Butcher in, Lin Mo looked at Liu Butcher, although he was not in good spirits, he was relieved that he had not received any torture to extract a confession.

Lin Mo was very afraid that he would be tortured to extract a confession by a comatose official, and he would be beaten into a trick, so it would be difficult to overturn the case.

After the interrogation began, the master first explained the case and presented it again, so that the people watching the trial and the county order had a brief understanding of the case. Next is the prefectural order question and answer session.

Liu Butcher recounted in detail the situation on the day of the incident. It turned out that Liu Butcher's pork had not been bought by the afternoon, and his wife had planned to take the rest of the meat home, but Liu Butcher was unwilling, after all, if the meat was not sold, it would be easy to spoil.

So Liu Butcher asked his wife to go home first, and he sold the rest of the meat before going back.

By the time Liu Butcher finished selling the meat, it was already dark. So I quickly packed up and rushed back. As soon as Liu Butcher entered the house, he suddenly found that his wife was covered in blood and fell in a pool of blood in public.

Liu Butcher hurriedly went to hug his wife, but found that his wife had lost her breath and was already dead. Liu Butcher screamed sadly and ushered in the neighbor, who thought that Liu Butcher killed the only thing that Lin Mo saw.

At this time, he was also summoned and told the cause of death. This pretend is a thin old man, and in the lobby, the old man cleared his throat and said:

"The deceased Liu Wangshi, thirty-four years old, died at home on the second day of June in the 40th year of Chengtian, the cause of death was cut with a sharp weapon and died of blood loss, a total of seven wounds on the whole body, the fatal wound was a wound on the waist, the serious injury was bleeding nonstop, and eventually led to the death of Liu Wang, the wound coincided with the murder weapon pig killing knife, and it can be concluded that he was killed by the pig killing knife."

After that, he retreated to the side to answer the inquiry of the prefectural order.

Lin Mo listened thoughtfully, and seemed to have grasped something in his heart but couldn't say it clearly.

At this time, the county magistrate asked Liu Butcher again if he admitted to the killing, and Liu Butcher still denied it. When the county magistrate heard this, he asked people to take out the murder weapon and asked, "Liu Kui, is this knife your knife?"

Liu Butcher looked at it carefully and replied: "This knife is indeed Xiaomin's knife, but Xiaomin did not kill my wife with this knife, the blood on the knife was seen clumsy at that time was covered with blood, and he stepped forward to hug his wife and accidentally touched it, please Mingjian!" As he spoke, he knelt down and bowed to the county commander.

The county order continued: "Bring a witness." At this time, several neighbors of Liu Butcher were brought up, and several people stood beside Liu Butcher after meeting the adults.

The magistrate asked, "Do you know this person?" Several people hurriedly replied: "I know, this person is Liu Butcher in General Town." ”

"Did you see Liu Kui kill his wife?" The prefectural magistrate then asked.

Several people hurriedly came back and saw Liu Butcher covered in blood, holding his dead wife. The scene depicted by several people was similar to what Lin Mo saw.

After a few people finished speaking, the county order asked them to stand aside. shouted at Liu Butcher: "Bold Liu Kui, you dare to kill your wife with a knife, there are human and material evidence, you still dare to quibble, if this official does not sentence you to the crime of intentional homicide, it will be difficult for the people to be angry." Come on, let him sign and draw the charge, and then put him in prison, and wait for the official to report to Lord Yin of the Ming Mansion to verify the facts of the case, and then behead this villain after the autumn. ”

As soon as Lin Mo heard this, he hurriedly rushed to the front of the hall and was about to shout injustice, when a clear voice came, "Slow." Everyone looked back, and a young man who looked like a scholar in a white robe with his hair in a bun walked out of the crowd.

Lin Mo looked at it, this person seemed to be very familiar, but Lin Mo couldn't take care of him, so he hurriedly came to the front of the hall and said, "My lord, Liu Kui has a grievance, and there are other hidden circumstances in this case, please investigate." As he spoke, he bowed to the magistrate. At this time, the young man in white also walked to Lin Mo's side and bowed to the county order.